If You Close the Door

Dark party bars, shiny Cadillac cars, and the people on subways and trains looking grey in the rain as they stand disarrayed.

Oh, but people look well in the dark.

She's glamourous and exciting and probably unhappy, sure, but I still envy her.

(She was a high school friend who lives the life I wish I did, but am too afraid/broke/attached/dutiful to try.)

I hadn't realized how much I missed her until she stopped at the restaurant last night.